● Cautions FG on cosmetic approach.
The Christian Rights Agenda, CRA, said on Sunday, it was watching with keen interest events in Benue, Plateau and other troubled spots in Nigeria in the renewed terror attacks where the lives of Christians and other innocent Nigerians have become endangered.
There have been renewed attacks in Benue and Plateau in the last three weeks, which have claimed several lives, property, and rendered several people homeless.
These attacks, according to CRA, appeared to be well coordinated and had the trappings of a terrorism by insurgents who were bent on fostering a regime of violence, religious intolerance and total anarchy.
“This is unacceptable,” stated CRA in a statement.
Reverend Kallamu Musa Dikwa, Secretary-General of CRA disclosed that, already officials of the organization had been sent on field operations to Benue, Plateau and Borno states to gather first-hand information on the extent of devastation suffered by Christians in the affected areas.
Preliminary reports from the field indicate that over 80 communities have been taken over by the Fulani terrorists.
He said his organization was in the process of collating information to have an up-to-date data of the persecution Nigerian Christians were facing, especially in northern Nigeria.
While commending the new marching orders given to security operatives by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to step up their game, CRA cautioned that such orders should go beyond their optics and ensure that the orders were followed and defaulters were sanctioned as a deterrent to other saboteurs.
The statement also cautioned state governors not to politicise the renewed killings but should be honourable enough to call a spade by its real name.
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